Empirical studies on software notices to inform policy makers and usability designers

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4886 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 341-355

  Grossklags, Jens ^a   Good, Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

End user license agreement; HCI; Legal issues; Notice; Privacy; Security

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; DATA PRIVACY; USABILITY ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT; INSTALLATION TASKS; LEGAL ISSUES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 38549085605     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77366-5_31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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